Chapter Summaries

Zhang Xiaohua announced the establishment of the Big Dipper Sect at Yao Mountain and declared the Immortal Mansion its property. After the sects congratulated him and recalled their disciples, the Righteous Path Alliance largely ignored his order, leaving the conflict unresolved.

• Zhang Xiaohua revealed that he had been expelled from the Incense-Passing Cult and formally established the Big Dipper Sect at Yao Mountain.
• Master Changsheng asked whether the sect was connected to the Heavenly Dragon Sect, and Zhang Xiaohua denied any connection.
• Zhang Xiaohua returned Kong Ju to the hall and ordered the sects to recall their disciples from the Immortal Mansion, warning them not to seize anything by force.
• Abbess Jingyi, Master Changsheng, Bai Yanqiu, and the other sects congratulated Zhang Xiaohua, while Valley Master Nie learned that Xiao Yu was a registered disciple of the Big Dipper Sect.
• Zhang Xiaohua gave the sects one incense stick to stop searching the Immortal Mansion, but only a few disciples of the Righteous Path Alliance returned.

Zhang Xiaohua exposed Alliance Leader Zhang’s attempt to incite the Righteous Path Alliance disciples against the Big Dipper Sect and punished the conspirators, but spared Zhang after Master Changsheng and Abbess Jingyi pleaded for him. Afterward, Zhang discovered a mysterious black qi was draining blood from the corpses at the foot of Yao Mountain, but it escaped his pursuit underground.

• Alliance Leader Zhang asked Zhang Xiaohua for more time to gather the Righteous Path Alliance disciples, and Zhang granted another half-stick of incense.
• Zhang Xiaohua revealed a scene of the messenger urging Xu Kun to disregard him and attack, while Alliance Leader Zhang bought time in the great hall.
• After the incense burned out, Zhang Xiaohua declared the Alliance members would stay and sent out streams of light to kill the gathered disciples.
• Master Changsheng and Abbess Jingyi pleaded for Alliance Leader Zhang, who killed the messenger and apologized; Zhang Xiaohua then spared him and removed the corpse.
• Zhang Xiaohua sent the dead disciples’ corpses to the foot of Yao Mountain, where black qi drained their blood and fled underground before his divine sense could catch it.

Zhang Xiaohua suspected the Heavenly Dragon Sect had used a black-flag-like treasure to scheme beneath Yao Mountain, then sent the martial sects away and sealed the immortal mansion. He remained its limited master and vanished from the throne after activating its restrictions.

• Zhang Xiaohua asked Abbess Jingyi about the fighting beneath Yao Mountain and warned that the corpses might reveal something unusual.
• Master Tiangang said Great Forest Temple had no black-flag treasure and identified the Heavenly Dragon Sect as a likely culprit, while Zhang Xiaohua suspected it might be connected to the flag he had sensed before.
• Zhang Xiaohua warned the leaders that the Heavenly Dragon Sect might have laid a scheme, declared Yao Mountain Big Dipper Sect territory, and ordered them to remove the corpses and leave.
• Zhang Xiaohua secretly told Valley Master Nie that Xiao Yu was at the Misty Sect, and Valley Master Nie agreed to go there with Si Yakong and Zhen Xuan.
• After the visitors departed, Zhang Xiaohua inspected the Town Mansion Spirit Stele, activated the immortal mansion's restrictions, and used a ritual implement to leave.

After Zhang Xiaohua disappeared from Yao Mountain, the leaders gathered below discovered that corpses around the mountain had been drained of blood and life force. Abbess Jingyi and the other sect leaders debated who was responsible, while Alliance Leader Zhang concealed his alarm and tried to leave; the cause of the deaths remained unknown.

• Zhang Xiaohua vanished from a secluded spot as the immortal mansion’s stairs disappeared, its gates closed, and its radiance faded.
• Abbess Jingyi’s disciples found corpses with their blood and life force drained, and Abbess Shuqing confirmed the victims had been dried out.
• Abbess Jingyi ordered the dead to be buried and went to meet Master Changsheng, while Abbess Shuqing kept Chen Chen to hear Ren Xiaoyao’s history.
• Abbess Jingyi, Master Changsheng, and the gathered leaders considered whether the Heavenly Dragon Sect had caused the deaths, then wondered whether the injured Di Shitian had been an impostor.
• Abbess Jingyi questioned Alliance Leader Zhang about his troubled expression, and he angrily threatened to leave before Master Changsheng and Abbess Jingyi calmed him.

The martial leaders suspected the Heavenly Dragon Sect was behind the bloodless slaughter near Yao Mountain, while Abbess Jingyi explained to Alliance Leader Zhang why the Misty Sect held leverage over their Secret Realm plans. Zhang Xiaohua flew toward Pingyang City, reflecting on his sudden cultivation gains and the founding of the Big Dipper Sect, as Zhang Bairen sensed his arrival.

• Bai Yanqiu and Master Changsheng discussed the drained corpses and agreed that the Heavenly Dragon Sect might be responsible, then the sect leaders departed to plan their response.
• Alliance Leader Zhang asked Abbess Jingyi to help secure the return of his captured disciples, but she explained that the Misty Sect possessed a sheepskin map essential to entering the Secret Realm.
• Abbess Jingyi told Alliance Leader Zhang that the Misty Sect's release terms benefited all three allied sects, and advised him to negotiate with it when the four sects gathered.
• Alliance Leader Zhang and Abbess Jingyi worried that Ren Xiaoyao might learn of the Secret Realm, but they expected the Big Dipper Sect to be occupied with its new founding.
• Zhang Xiaohua flew toward Pingyang City and marveled at his increased cultivation, his new treasures, and his ownership of Yao Mountain Immortal Mansion.
• Zhang Bairen looked toward the sky as Zhang Xiaohua approached, and Xiaohei and Xiaohuang trembled and prostrated themselves.

Zhang Xiaohua returned to his family and disciples with a dramatically changed appearance, alarming everyone and even frightening Little Yellow and Xiaohei. Zhang Xiaohu tested whether he was really Zhang Xiaohua, and the chapter ended as Zhang Xiaohua began answering his questions.

• Zhang Xiaohua landed in the courtyard, where Liu Qian, Guo Sufi, and Zhang Xiaolong struggled to recognize him.
• Zhang Xiaohua gathered his family and disciples and reassured them that he was still himself, while Little Yellow and Xiaohei admitted they were frightened of him.
• Zhang Xiaohua told everyone to move inside for the winter, and Zhang Xiaohu arrived with Shui Tiantian.
• Nie Qianyu reasoned that Zhang Xiaohua's ability to change back to his old appearance proved his identity, but Zhang Xiaohu still asked him questions.
• Zhang Xiaohua correctly described where Senior Yang's portrait hung and hinted that he remembered the command for handling the Righteous Path Alliance's disciples.

Zhang Xiaohua reunited with his family and recounted rescuing Li Jinfeng and learning the tragic history of Yang Haoya and Yue Mingxin. He then revealed a mysterious Town Mansion Spirit Stele, but Zhang Xiaolong and Zhang Xiaohu mistook it for ordinary bluestone.

• Zhang Xiaohua joked about his identity by writing that he loved Chen Chen and Changge, making the family laugh and confirming he was himself.
• Zhang Xiaohua told everyone about finding Qu Jing'er, meeting and rescuing Li Jinfeng, and encountering Yue Mingxin's Primordial Spirit projection beneath Mochou Lake.
• Zhang Xiaohua recounted Yang Haoya and Yue Mingxin's story, leaving Nie Qianyu and the others saddened by its tragic ending.
• Zhang Xiaohua explained that Li Jinfeng was returning with Miss Mei's corpse alongside Yuan Changqing and two Misty Sect disciples, and Qiutong worried about the journey.
• Zhang Xiaohua produced a five-colored Town Mansion Spirit Stele, but Zhang Xiaolong and Zhang Xiaohu mistook it for a piece of bluestone, irritating him.

Zhang Xiaohua explained that the Yao Mountain Immortal Mansion had emerged and belonged to the Big Dipper Sect, while the Town Mansion Spirit Stele served as its key. When Zhang Bairen swallowed the stele and later produced it on command, Shui Tiantian accepted that he deserved to be the sect’s Founding Disciple.

• Zhang Xiaohua revealed that the jade-like object was the Town Mansion Spirit Stele, and Zhang Xiaohu told the family about the Yao Mountain Immortal Mansion.
• Zhang Xiaohua announced that the Immortal Mansion had fallen into the hands of the Big Dipper Sect and explained that only he could authorize entry.
• Ou Yan recognized the spirit stele as the key to the Immortal Mansion, but Nie Qianyu and the others could not touch it.
• Zhang Bairen grabbed the spirit stele, swallowed it, and then brought it back out when Zhang Xiaohua promised him more things to play with.
• Zhang Xiaohua explained that Zhang Bairen had stored the spirit stele inside his body, convincing Shui Tiantian that the child deserved to be the Big Dipper Sect’s Founding Disciple.

Zhang Xiaohua recounted how he obtained Yao Mountain Immortal Mansion and founded the Big Dipper Sect, then discussed moving his family there amid looming conflict. Zhang Xiaohu learned that Ou Yan knew where the sheepskin scroll was and that Zhang Xiaohua had been keeping it, while the Longevity Pill remained a mystery.

• Zhang Xiaohua told his family and companions how he gained control of Yao Mountain Immortal Mansion, founded the Big Dipper Sect, and punished the Righteous Path Alliance.
• Zhang Xiaohua and Zhang Xiaohu agreed that their family should move to Yao Mountain Immortal Mansion because Huanxi Mountain Villa and the Misty Sect could face attacks.
• Zhang Xiaohu privately told Ou Yan that Abbess Jingyi had ordered the Misty Sect to fulfill its promise to the Incense-Passing Cult and asked about the sheepskin scroll.
• Ou Yan revealed that Zhang Xiaohua had been keeping the sheepskin scroll for her, and she agreed to have him give it to Zhang Xiaohu.
• Ou Yan left the Longevity Pill in Zhang Xiaohua's hands, explaining that she knew only rumors that it could extend a person's lifespan.

Zhang Xiaohua and Zhang Xiaohu arranged for Ou Yan to hand Huanxi Mountain Villa back to the Misty Sect, then prepared to move their family to the Big Dipper Sect at Yao Mountain Immortal Mansion. The family’s carriages set out for Yao Mountain as sect disciples returning from there discussed the new sect, unaware who was traveling beside them.

• Zhang Xiaohu agreed that Ou Yan could return Huanxi Mountain Villa to the Misty Sect and move to Yao Mountain with the Big Dipper Sect.
• Zhang Xiaohua gave Zhang Xiaohu the Nameless Finger of Five Claw Peak scroll, then took it back after agreeing to join him at Index Finger Peak on the night of the fourteenth day of the first lunar month.
• Ou Yan accompanied Zhang Xiaohu to Misty Manor, where Li Jian and Liu Qingyang supported her plan to hand over the villa.
• Ou Yan arranged food and gathered Zhang Xiaohua’s chests for the move, while the Zhang family prepared to leave.
• Zhang Xiaohua, Zhang Xiaohu, Ou Yan, and their relatives set out for Yao Mountain in carriages as returning disciples discussed the Big Dipper Sect nearby.

Zhang Xiaohua brought his family and companions to the Yao Mountain Immortal Mansion and showed them how to enter it. The group began settling into its servants’ quarters, amazed by the vast grounds and flying prayer mats.

• Zhang Xiaohua’s group traveled toward Yao Mountain, and he secretly met Valley Master Nie so Nie Qianyu could reunite with her father and give him a Meridian Nourishing Pill.
• At the foot of Yao Mountain, Zhang Xiaohua used a magical artifact to open a circle of light and brought his family, Mr. Liu, and their belongings into the Immortal Mansion.
• Zhang Xiaohua led everyone to the lakeside servants’ quarters and explained that he could only control a small part of the Immortal Mansion.
• Zhang Xiaohua showed the group nine pavilions and demonstrated how prayer mats flew between the cliff and the white pavilion.
• Zhang Cai rode a prayer mat through the air with Zhang Xiaohua beside him, then laughed that he had been an immortal for a while.

Zhang Xiaohua brought his family and disciples into the Yao Mountain Immortal Mansion, showed them its lake, towers, and cloud-filled Lingxiao Treasure Hall, and assigned them places to live. He gathered the Big Dipper Sect’s disciples for a lecture on their prospects in cultivation and left off while discussing Shui Tiantian’s aptitude and fate.

• Zhang Xiaohua returned with everyone from the immortal mansion’s lake and let them choose empty towers for their homes.
• Zhang Xiaohua took his disciples and Zhang Bairen to the Lingxiao Treasure Hall, where they explored the clouds but found an invisible boundary around the red-cloud area.
• Zhang Xiaohua told the disciples that Qu Jing'er was traveling to join the Big Dipper Sect and urged them to work hard at cultivation.
• Zhang Xiaohua assessed the disciples’ aptitudes and possible paths, including Nie Qianyu’s potential with formations, Zhang Ping'er’s martial arts foundation, and Ji Xiaohua’s cultivation affinity.
• Zhang Xiaohua began praising Shui Tiantian’s aptitude and connection to the Big Dipper Sect, saying his immortal opportunity had been destined.

Zhang Xiaohua guided his disciples into immortal cultivation, established a Five Elements Spirit Gathering Formation, and settled his family in the immortal mansion. The chapter ended with Zhang Cai eager to farm there until he realized the mansion had no sun or night.

• Shui Tiantian and Zhang Ping'er agreed to begin cultivating anew, and Zhang Xiaohua named Xiaohei and Xiaohuang the Big Dipper Sect's guardian divine beasts.
• Zhang Xiaohua used five-colored jade marrow and the Town Mansion Spirit Stele to create a Five Elements Spirit Gathering Formation for the disciples and animals to cultivate in.
• Zhang Xiaohua returned with his family to the pondside and helped them move their belongings into the small building, where Zhang Cai and Zhang Xiaolong began building a stove.
• Zhang Cai asked to reclaim land and farm in the immortal mansion, but he realized it had no sun after Zhang Xiaohua told him he could farm and raise animals there.

Zhang Xiaohua made the Yao Mountain Immortal Mansion feel more like a home for his family, then prepared to face the coming date with Zhang Xiaohu. Meanwhile, the other sects chose to investigate the Heavenly Dragon Sect and rebuild their strength rather than attack without evidence.

• Zhang Xiaohua used the Town Mansion Spirit Stele to reveal a blue sky above the Immortal Mansion while preserving its restrictions.
• Zhang Xiaohua agreed to move his grandmother's and Ji Xiaohua's mother's coffins to the Immortal Mansion, and he, Zhang Xiaolong, Zhang Xiaohu, and Zhang Cai brought them there with plow oxen.
• Zhang Cai and Zhang Xiaolong prepared fields beside the lake, while Zhang Xiaohu left for the Misty Sect with Changge and Chen Chen after Zhang Xiaohua gave him a jade talisman and reminded him of the fourteenth day of the first lunar month.
• Li Jinfeng and the others arrived at the Immortal Mansion after burying Miss Mei's coffin, and Li Jinfeng and Qiutong shyly avoided speaking to each other.
• Alliance Leader Zhang persuaded the sects to send disciples to investigate the Heavenly Dragon Sect and return to their own mountain gates to recover their strength.

Zhang Xiaohua’s disciples used the Spirit Gathering Formation in the Yao Mountain Immortal Mansion to begin cultivating the Immortal Path, while Abbess Jingyi’s group gathered in Nanzhao Town to discuss the other sects’ movements. The chapter left the Incense-Passing Cult preparing for a meeting at Five Claw Peak and still uncertain about the Misty Sect.

• Nie Qianyu formed her first thread of true qi after two days, becoming Zhang Xiaohua’s first disciple to step onto the Immortal Path.
• Ji Xiaohua, Shui Tiantian, Qu Jing'er, Ou Yan, and Zhang Ping'er followed, forming their first threads of true qi between the fifteenth and twenty-ninth days.
• Abbess Jingyi questioned Abbess Xuezhen about Yao Mountain, and Abbess Xuezhen reported that no one had entered or left the immortal mansion since Ren Xiaoyao withdrew its steps.
• Abbess Jingyi said spies from several sects were watching Yao Mountain and planned to meet Great Forest Temple at Five Claw Peak the following night.
• Abbess Xuezhen reported that the Misty Sect’s Ming Qing, Gao Kunheng, and Wuming Hall agents had disappeared from contact, and Abbess Jingyi warned the group not to confront Li Jian and the other Misty Sect disciples.

Abbess Jingyi and the others debated whether Ren Xiaoyao was behind the Incense-Passing Cult’s recent calamities and planned to focus on the Secret Realm before confronting him. Inside the Yao Mountain Immortal Mansion, Zhang Xiaohua suffered a mysterious attack while teaching Nie Qianyu, then failed to complete his Hand of Cause and Effect before an unfamiliar gleam appeared before him.

• Abbess Jingyi suspected Ren Xiaoyao was the person tied to the Misty Sect and possibly responsible for Great Elder Jing Gang’s death, while Abbess Shuqing and the others questioned the evidence.
• Abbess Jingyi ordered the cult to prioritize the Secret Realm gathering at Five Claw Peak and asked about Zhang Xiaohu and Bai Yanqiu.
• The women discussed the treasures and cultivation techniques they had gained from the Yao Mountain Immortal Mansion, while Chen Chen envied what Ren Xiaoyao might still possess.
• Zhang Xiaohua instructed Nie Qianyu in formations, but a sudden force seized his heart and sent him falling before he recovered and dismissed his disciples.
• Zhang Xiaohua tried to manifest the Hand of Cause and Effect, lost control of his true qi, spat blood, and began recovering with a Qi Stone.
• A faint gleam emerged from the void and stopped in front of Zhang Xiaohua.

Zhang Xiaohua left the Lingxiao Treasure Hall to meet Zhang Xiaohu and the Misty Sect elders, who had come to discuss cooperation between the Misty Sect and the newly founded Big Dipper Sect. After Zhang Xiaohua brought Ou Yan and Nie Qianyu into the talks, Hu Yunyi began outlining the Misty Sect’s three matters for discussion.

• Zhang Xiaohua failed to form the Hand of Cause and Effect incantation and suffered a backlash, then told Nie Qianyu and the others he would be away for a few days.
• Zhang Xiaohua met Zhang Xiaohu, Hu Yunyi, and other Misty Sect members near Yao Mountain and brought them into the Lingxiao Treasure Hall.
• Zhang Xiaohu and the Misty Sect elders explained that they wanted to discuss the two sects’ interests directly with Zhang Xiaohua, rather than rely on Zhang Xiaohu’s personal relationship with him.
• Zhang Xiaohua summoned Ou Yan and Nie Qianyu to help negotiate, and Ou Yan revealed that she had begun cultivating under the Big Dipper Sect’s secret manual.
• Hu Yunyi said the Misty Sect had three matters to discuss and began by recalling the 321 Fledgling Eagle Hall disciples who had learned the Big Dipper Sect’s boxing techniques, 303 of whom were still alive.

The Misty Sect proposed a series of agreements with the Big Dipper Sect, including transferring disciples and supporting its growth in exchange for help cultivating immortal-path disciples. The chapter ended with Ou Yan questioning a proposed alliance that would require the Big Dipper Sect to rescue the Misty Sect from destruction.

• Hu Yunyi offered the Big Dipper Sect 302 Fledgling Eagle Hall disciples as a congratulatory gift and repayment for its kindness.
• Wen Wenhai supported the transfer, and Zhang Xiaohua accepted it, leaving Ou Yan to arrange the details after the Secret Realm.
• Hu Yunyi proposed that the Misty Sect send talented young disciples to the Big Dipper Sect and asked it to help Misty Sect disciples enter the immortal path; Ou Yan negotiated the annual number down to three.
• Zhang Xiaohua agreed to help three Misty Sect disciples enter the immortal path each year, provided the Misty Sect supplied the necessary cultivation resources and materials.
• Hu Yunyi proposed that the sects advance and retreat together, asking the Big Dipper Sect to aid the Misty Sect if it faced annihilation while the Misty Sect handled the Big Dipper Sect's ordinary worldly affairs.
• Ou Yan questioned whether the proposed alliance offered a fair exchange, since the Misty Sect's request for rescue seemed disproportionate to what it offered.

Hu Yunyi and Zhang Xiaohua agreed to an alliance between the Misty Sect and the Big Dipper Sect, with the sects coordinating recruitment and disciple training. Hu Yunyi reunited with Shui Tiantian, who revealed that he had entered the Immortal Dao, and learned that six Big Dipper Sect disciples had already achieved Immortal cultivation.

• Hu Yunyi argued that a formal alliance could keep the Misty Sect and the Big Dipper Sect harmonious across generations, and Zhang Xiaohua agreed to the proposal.
• Zhang Xiaohua asked Ou Yan and Hu Yunyi to settle the alliance details and told Xue Qing to coordinate disciple recruitment and arrangements.
• Zhang Xiaohua summoned Shui Tiantian, and Hu Yunyi reunited with his former disciple and forgave him for his role in the poisoning conspiracy.
• Shui Tiantian told Hu Yunyi that he had entered the Immortal Dao and that Ji Xiaohua had done so before him.
• Nie Qianyu said that all six Big Dipper Sect disciples besides the young Zhang Bairen had reached Immortal cultivation, prompting Zhang Xiaohu to accuse Zhang Xiaohua of being unfair.

Zhang Xiaohua accompanied Zhang Xiaohu and Misty Sect members to Five Claw Peak for the Secret Realm gathering, disguising himself as Daoist Pan An and distributing protective jade talismans. At the meeting, Great Forest Temple and Incense-Passing Cult leaders questioned Pan An and confronted Zhang Xiaohu over their sects’ grievances.

• Zhang Xiaohua and Zhang Xiaohu agreed to let Nie Qianyu, Ou Yan, Hall Master Qin, and Hall Master Xue handle cooperation between the Big Dipper Sect and Misty Sect while Hu Yunyi stayed at the Immortal Mansion.
• Zhang Xiaohua disguised himself as Daoist Pan An and gave Zhang Xiaohu and the others rabbit-shaped jade talismans for protection during their journey to the Secret Realm.
• Zhang Xiaohu’s group reached Wo Niu Stone at Five Claw Peak, where Zhang Xiaohu waited until Master Changsheng and other Great Forest Temple monks arrived.
• Master Tiangang questioned Pan An about his power and the Misty Sect’s possible Immortal Path inheritance, while Pan An said he had no interest in martial-world disputes.
• Abbess Jingyi and other Misty Sect members arrived, and Zhang Xiaohu rejected her concern and said he had already explained the Incense-Passing Cult’s wrongs to its inner disciples.
• Abbess Jingyi accused Zhang Xiaohu and Pan An of manipulating the Incense-Passing Cult, and Liu Qingyang angrily began defending Zhang Xiaohu.